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row then smoothed down with a lump crusher. On May 27, four 

 cords of common barnyard manure was spread evenly on the piece 

 and May 28 thoroughly worked in with the wheel-harrow, then 

 smoothed down as before. May 29 it was marked out three feet and 

 four inches each way and 150 pounds of Quinnipiac phosphate was 

 dropped in the hill and planted by hand. 



It was cultivated three times, twice in a row and hoed once. An 

 average rod of the ears husked Oct. 16 weighed 50 pounds or 8000 

 pounds to the acre. 



Considering the improvement on the land equal to the interest and 

 taxes and the stover to pay for harvesting, the account stands as 

 follows : 



Dr. 

 To plowing, $ 2 00 



Four cords manure, 20 00 



Carting and spreading manure, 3 50 



Wheel-harrowing, 



Phosphate, 



Planting, 



Cultivating and hoeing, 



Total, 



Or. 

 By 114 bushels at 55 cents. 



Balance in favor of corn. 



The field of corn I offer for premium was a piece of turf ground 

 plowed May 15th, and twelve two-horse loads of manure spread on 

 to the acre, well pulverized with the soil using for the purpose a 

 sixteen inch Corbin..disk harrow. Marked three feet, ten inches 

 each way, planted from three to five kernels in a hill, cultivated both 

 ways, was planted May 28th, kind of corn Western dent red cob. 



D. A. HORTON. 



